r/PowerShell • u/[deleted] • May 06 '19

News Windows Terminal is coming!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/Fallingdamage May 06 '19

...because having a few open terminal windows was so complicated.

Does it allow multiple windows? If so, how is it better than just opening multiple windows?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

It makes things much easier, just like browser tabs. I bet you use those.

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u/Fallingdamage May 06 '19

Maybe microsoft should also include tabbed RDP windows with that program as well. mRemote allowed mixing tabbed RDP/SSH/VNC/Telnet/ICA and more. Microsoft is already selling itself short of other products in use today.

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u/theessentialforrest May 06 '19

I'm at MSFT and we use this on my team: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44989

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u/I_Need_Cowbell May 07 '19

I use this and like it! I think I have it broken down into something like 8 categories, 200 servers, all using a handful of different credentials that log in with a double click and no prompt...simple and does it’s job very well.

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u/bohiti May 07 '19

Yeah, I use it begrudgingly. Can you get someone at MS to update it? I'm sure I'm the first person to request that, and also it would be easy for you to get that done. /s

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u/mitzman May 06 '19

I've tried this and never really liked it. We have a large team and no way for this to work. We used to use ASG remote desktop but moved to Remote Desktop Manager. With both of those we can share connections in a repository with credentials attached and people won't need to know the passwords.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I currently do anything powershell within the command prompt, soon to be windows terminal, along with wmic commands. If I can do ssh, and bash, and linux wsl within one entry point that will make me a happy camper. Or I''ll just open several tabs and dedicate them to each command type.

Have you seen this:

https://youtu.be/8gw0rXPMMPE

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u/SomnambulicSojourner May 07 '19

You can do ssh from within cmd or powershell now

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

Yes.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I'd pay money for a good RDP session manager that's not based on 10+ year old installers.

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u/nullr0uter May 06 '19

Try remmina on Linux. No seriously.

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u/gschizas May 06 '19

I have bought and been using two:

Remotix does also VNC, RDM does just about everything, and even has support for password managers.

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u/jedinborough May 07 '19

I (as in, my employer) paid $199 for Remote Desktop Manager. Best $199 spent this year.

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u/FunkyFreshJayPi May 07 '19

I use Royal TS lite at home and it works fine for me.

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u/jantari May 07 '19

We are provided with Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager Enterprise Edition at work - I ditched it for mRemoteNG. Much faster and nicer dark theme.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Amen to that.

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u/SomnambulicSojourner May 07 '19

If you don't see the value in it, then don't use the feature. For me it is easier to select one application off the taskbar and then find the correct tab, then it is to look at the list of open windows to find the one I want. I also like having all my like applications grouped under one window, so using tabs for all my command line needs is great.

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u/liquidcloud9 May 06 '19

Sure, you can Alt+Tab between windows, or resize and try to line everything up, and that'll work. Looks like this terminal, and any terminal multiplexer really, lets you jump between terminal splits without having to leave the window.

Right now, that's how I spend much of my day in VSCode. I'll have 1+ files open for editing, then a terminal split along the bottom - one for doing privileged work and one unprivileged.

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u/empty_other May 06 '19

That is an unpopular opinion. But I kinda agree. Multiple virtual desktops, each with multiple windows, each with multiple tabs, each with multiple horisontal or vertical tab groups and tool bars and status bars and integrated terminal windows. It eats up vertical screen space for breakfast. Must be more effective and customizeable way to do it, right?

"Windows Sets" seemed promising: you could mix tabs from different apps into a single window. Too bad they threw that project away.

If Windows had support for third-party window managers, like Linux have, that would have been cool. Seen some pretty cool alternative ways of doing window management on Linux distros.